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ELECTION 2008
Election Notes
Tax Assessor: Spears Pounds Maxey
Bitter race ends in landslide
BY LEE NICHOLS
HD 46: Dukes Routs Thompson
Dawnna Dukes closes out a volatile contest
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
D.A. Race: Final Verdict Pending
BY JORDAN SMITH
Here Come the Judges
BY JORDAN SMITH
CD 10: Doherty Over Grant
BY WELLS DUNBAR
March 4 Election Results
Oh Boy! Another Campaign Season!
City of Austin, AISD, and ACC poised for another round of elections
BY WELLS DUNBAR AND RICHARD WHITTAKER
Panel Upholds Olsen Firing, but Case Doesn't End Here
APD officer loses first round of appeal challenging his firing
BY JORDAN SMITH
Naked City
Developing Stories
City off to promising start with Seaholm East Redevelopment District
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Reefer Madness
Convicted drug felons slated for early release this week under new crack-cocaine guidelines
BY JORDAN SMITH
Point Austin: Democracy Rocks!
On this day, change happened from the bottom up
BY MICHAEL KING
Beside the Point
Gentlemen's agreements, single-member districts, and more
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
How to Get Young People Involved in Politics; and Monsanto Seeks to Ban the Truth
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Pub Grub
A guide to some of the best food-serving bars in town
Food-o-File
Threadgill's new Old No. 1 almost done, keep Las Manitas on you food to-do list, and take advantage of Austin's Downtown wine bars
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
March 7-12
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
The Grove Wine Bar & Kitchen
A great wine guide, good eats, Reed Clemons hits West Lake
music
If You Have Ghosts
The 2007-08 AMA's ghosts – past, present, and future
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Wednesday SXSW Picks & Sleepers
Handicapping the first night of SXSW 08
Off the Record
The countdown to South by Southwest continues, while the Black Angels turn on and Ghostland Observatory marches onward and upward
BY AUSTIN POWELL
SXSW Platters
The Judy's
Washarama, Moo
We Were the States
Believe the Thieves
Malcolm Holcombe
Gamblin' House
Jeffrey Lewis
12 Crass Songs
Lightspeed Champion
Falling Off the Lavender Bridge
Tiger! Tiger!
The Kind of Goodnight
Faceless Werewolves
Pardon Me, Are Those Your Claws in My Back?
Tour:Smart and Break the Band
Martin Atkins
Sons & Daughters
This Gift
Roky Erickson & the Explosives
Halloween: Live 1979-1981
Elf Power
In a Cave
Shootin' Pains
Pray Like Crazy
The Kills
Midnight Boom
Balmorhea
Rivers Arms
Saul Williams
The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust
Dan Dyer
Dan Dyer
Lemonheads
It's a Shame About Ray Collector's Edition
screens
Big Hair, Big Stars, and a Mechanical Bull
Previewing the 2008 Texas Film Hall of Fame
BY MELANIE HAUPT
SXSW FILM
Something to Talk About
Previewing SXSW Film 08
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
All-Around Gal
Mumblecore baby Greta Gerwig acts, writes, directs, enunciates properly
BY SPENCER PARSONS
Nathan and David and 'Goliath'
After years of making shorts, the Zellner Brothers go big
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
Outsider Art
Music on the margins
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
Ministering to the Dead
A death row chaplain has a change of heart in At the Death House Door
BY CLAY SMITH
Private Parts in Public Places
Bob Byington lifts the lid on Registered Sex Offender
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
Boom and Bust in a Single-Stoplight Town
Crawford and the commander in chief
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Greenlight Awards Premiere at SXSW
Celebrating digital TV
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
No Telling What's What or Who's Who
Confronting, and confounding, the color line in The Order of Myths
BY MARC SAVLOV
Making More Than Ends Meet
Chasing the middle class dream in Intimidad
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
Birds of America
Austin transplant Alex Karpovsky blends fact and fiction in his funny, heady tracking of the elusive ivory-billed woodpecker
BY TODDY BURTON
It's a Dog's Life
The Toe Tactic's existential angst and animated canines
BY YVONNE GEORGINA PUIG
Truth or Vérité?
Celia Maysles looks her father's legacy head-on in Wild Blue Yonder
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Black Like Me ... and Me ... and Me
Elvis Mitchell discusses why there's no one African-American experience
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Frisco Bay Blues
It's a thin line between love and hate for San Francisco in Barry Jenkins' 'Medicine for Melancholy'
BY SOFIA RESNICK
The Streets of Philadelphia
Divorce pains framed against the backdrop of 'The New Year Parade'
BY RAYMOND BLANTON
The Coast of Utopia
Two frustrated actors write a script, make it geographically specific, enlist A-list talent, and make the damn thing themselves. Why does 'Humboldt County' sound familiar?
BY MARC SAVLOV
Film News
Austin Film: The SXSW CliffsNotes version
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
It's curtains for the Web crossover quarterlife
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
The Band's Visit
A lost band of Egyptian musicians from a police orchestra find refuge with some Israeli townspeople.
The Bank Job
When a gang of thieves break into some London safe-deposit boxes, they enter a world of police corruption, financial malfeasance, sexual degeneracy, political conspiracy, murder, torture, and upper-class salaciousness.
Black & White
This new Bollywood film takes on the subject of terrorism.
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Frances McDormand's Miss Pettigrew is an unemployed nanny who bluffs her way into a job as the "social secretary" for the brain-dead, proto-fashionista, Yank-on-holiday starlet Delysia Lafosse, played by Amy Adams.
Steep
The glories of extreme skiing are proclaimed from international mountaintops.
SXSW 08 Film Festival
Enjoy the madness while it lasts.
War Dance
In this acclaimed documentary, Ugandan schoolchildren, victims of the brutal 20-year civil war, compete in a national dance contest.
arts & culture
Shape of Things to Come
What will the arts in Austin look like in 10 years? CreateAustin has a good idea – in fact, it has 10.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Tapestry Dance Company:Getting those tap shoes re-'Soul'ed
The troupe's thrilling Souls of Our Feet program is back, with more reconstructions of classic rhythm tap routines
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Long Center for the Performing Arts: Opening the house before it opens
The long-awaited cultural facility throws wide its doors for four days of free performances and tours
BY ROBERT FAIRES
ColdTowne: Getting Upright with the originals
Core members from cult comedy troupe Upright Citizens Brigade raid Austin for the first time since 2000
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Speeding Motorcycle
In that tenuous space where heartbreaking loneliness meets relentless hope lives this beautiful, strange Daniel Johnston rock opera
Stones in His Pockets
With David Stahl and Michael Stuart playing everyone in County Kerry, this Irish comedy is a delight from beginning to end
Jade Walker: Merriment
This solo show explodes with shapes that have big personalities and enough color combinations to make your eyes reverberate
columns
Page Two: Love and Creation
An approach to the SXSW Film Festival
BY LOUIS BLACK
Oops!
After a Fashion
The rumors of Stephen's debilitating automobile accident have been greatly exaggerated, but train wreck? That's another story altogether.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
Texas coastal fishing piers provide the means to walk on water
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Playing Through
The Ice Bats are making it work the way a sublimely half-assed Will Ferrell movie works
BY THOMAS HACKETT
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The state (and world's toughest) dog of North Carolina is the Plott Hound, Indiana Jones' first name is Henry and more fun facts
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
Can my bicycle be towed?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
Austin Aztex U-23 tryouts, and more
